Plot: Dr Michael Mosley ends the series with a look at poisons, exploring the turning points when scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as a cure - celebrating the eccentrics and mavericks whose breakthroughs were to pave the way for some of the most striking treatments of modern medicine. Of the medicines explored in this series, those that are derived from poisons are perhaps the most extraordinary
Pain, Pus And Poison The Search For Modern Medicines - Season 1 - Poison (Episode 3)
Episode Aired On:
Monday, August 5 2013
11 years ago
Monday, August 5 2013
11 years ago
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